On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 09:31 +0100, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: > On 2025/09/17 6:50 PM, Michael B. Justice via Exim-users wrote: > > When running as a daemon, inbound messages are not written to the > > appropriate maildir and the mainlog reports that it cannot open > > tmp/<filename> and the message is queued for retry (after 10 times > > of > > trying initially). > > > > Yet when I run exim as root with -Rf <domain name> or -qff or even > > -M > > <message id>, the messages are delivered as expected > > Is your exim binary installed suid root?
Yes, it is. I didn't think to check that, but I logged in a few moments ago and confirmed it. MJ -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## [email protected] ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
